Anathema-

What's really going to bake your noodle is when you understand that validates manifestation. Simply believing a thing will happen to you will make that thing more likely to happen. Wave function collapse, but for reality. 

8 hours ago, Uaarkson said:

If you’re talking about the many worlds interpretation, that’s not exactly a manifestation of free will either.

Not sure what you mean here.

What I mean is that you already made every choice. Free will is an illusion not because you have no control but because you can only perceive the results of one set of choices. 

And of course you have free will. You can only perceive one reality at a time but you've already made every choice you could have made. Reality accommodates both free will and determinism simultaneously. 

lol atheists are so adorably "christian"

On 4/4/2023 at 7:01 AM, thewhyteboar said:

When I was in the 5th grade, our teacher made us spell words out loud. He said the word, looked at me, and said "Spell it." I wasn't paying attention, so I just said "eye tee." It got a big laugh. The next kid did the same thing. A bunch of kids laughed. A 3rd kid did it. No one laughed.

 

Elon has a worse sense of humor than that 3rd kid.

"The B Sharps"

My org has regular Cyber Security Awareness Meetings...

4 hours ago, mclumber1 said:

 

As powerful as it is, the SLS rocket isn't powerful enough to get enough payload (fuel, lander, and humans) to the surface of the moon, let alone get them back into lunar orbit.  That's why the lander (Starship) has to meet the astronauts in lunar orbit for the Artemis 3 mission in a few years.  

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they should just land on the moon anyway when they get up there

7 hours ago, Remarkableriots said:

remarkable 

If gender identity really mattered then why aren't we talking about why mass shooters are, with the obvious exception, men?

u can refer to me for proper punctuation & grammar 

Would be nice to have an exclusive avengers track and the rest exclusively themselves with no need to connect. 

Appropriating black American phrases is quintessentialy white American and using memes that feature black people is not even that. Digital blackface, on the other hand, refers to actually pretending to be a black American through the novelty of the anonymous Internet experience but instead has been a phrase appropriated to mean something divisibly absurd. Imagine that. 

On 3/22/2023 at 4:00 PM, AbsolutSurgen said:

Just a moment...

JOURNALS.ASM.ORG

It's not a new fungus, and some studies have speculated that is been part of the human biome for potentially hundreds of years, but may be spreading now due to antiseptic bias.

so it's coming to save us?

On 3/18/2023 at 10:21 AM, CitizenVectron said:

I've never had crab rangoon.

It's mostly cream cheese and doesn't taste anything like crab. 

2 hours ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said:

Literally can’t think of a worse topping

...cheese?

10 hours ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said:

Crab Rangoon is a shitty food 

11 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said:

Well, got the service desk manager job...and now I'm scared shitless about the responsibility of managing people!

don't let them walk all over you

fire two the first week the worst performer and the best

2 minutes ago, elbobo said:

 

have you seen how fat he is now?

19 hours ago, Gavin King said:

It's also not truly a 70%+ discount. Currently, there's huge rebates on insulin products. Pharma pays PBMs. PBMs pay the rebates to Health Plans (with or without keeping a slice), Health Plans then pay those rebates to the plan sponsor (your employer) and also may or may not keep a slice. No where did I mention the patient/member. Very rare for a member to benefit directly from rebates (indirectly, in theory, lower premiums). 

 

Just example math, but if a drug cost $100 with a $70 rebate.... manufacturers can charge $30 with a $0 rebate and still make the same margins. Typically they pay rebates in order to entice PBMs/Health Plans to prefer their product over their competition on the formulary and potentially even exclude coverage all together on the competition. As others have said, patents are expiring, it's going to soon be an open market, they're likely just getting a head start and buying some good will, but it's not costing them nearly what it appears in headlines.

I'll always remember an episode of Garfield & Friends where they go to the grocery store then they show the manager talking to a new employee and showed off by taking a sign off the pears that said 1/35¢ and then announced a new store special for pears 2/$1 and people flocked to the pear stand and cleaned it out. 

joke's on him you can only be a thousand percent anything

5 hours ago, Joe said:

Three fingies in the pudding baby.

He'll do a pantomime of the pudding story like Rubio drinking the water bottle failure. 

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I figure that there's no cost to the taxpayer here not through any force of bureaucratic will but instead from the profit realized by absorbing the tbills rather than having to pay them back. If interest rates make the difference here between solvency and ruin then it doesn't sound crazy that the government is making out here. 

just have the AI write the ethics